User blog comment:MegaGyarados/PokéPolls - Episode 2 - Nominations - Hardest Gym Leader/@comment-31398341-20180211074253/@comment-32358261-20180211084652

He was my third hardest. Because he was carrying a lv 50 flying type against my lv 40 ampharos.

And Wild pokemon were only lv 30 for training. If that isn’t broken leveling curve idk what is.